Comptroller to Recommend Rate Should Be at Least $11 an hour

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer plans Monday to call on the state Legislature to permit the nation's largest city to set its own minimum wage, saying he believes the level citywide should be at least $11 per hour.

Allowing the minimum wage in New York City to rise to $11 per hour would provide an additional $2 billion in annual income to working families in the city, the comptroller plans to say. That would still leave New...